Elon Musk secures $7B in financing for Twitter, blasting Media Matters and the people behind them. Next, Secretary Mayorkas testifying amid criticism of the new disinformation bureau. Third, Pope Francis says NATO played a role in starting the war in Ukraine by barking at Putin s door. And finally, Buy Now, Pay Later is sending TikTok spiraling into debt.
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00:07:11.840If your intent was to combat misinformation online or in the government, why on God's green earth would you nominate someone who is a human geyser of misinformation?
00:07:24.900Mr. Senator, I am ultimately responsible for the hiring of Ms. Jankiewicz to be the executive director of the Disinformation Governance Board.
00:07:39.080In my capacity as the secretary, I bear responsibility for that.
00:07:45.240I understand that she is an expert in disinformation.
00:08:58.620Because as he's asking basic questions, you've got someone that you're setting up this disinformation bureau suddenly with, you know, no law or, you know, any type of legal backing behind it whatsoever.
00:09:08.780But instead, you're just going to do it, you know, because why not?
00:09:12.720Ron Paul, of course, was completely right about what they would do eventually with the Department of Homeland Security.
00:09:17.280But, but, he says, did you pick someone to run this thing who's, you know, I don't know, kind of seen as impartial, someone that people have a lot of respect for, someone that people really on both sides of the aisle say, you know what?
00:09:32.440But that's the kind of person that we went in there to call balls and strikes, someone who's completely seen as above board, credible, and trustworthy.
00:09:54.480Did you look at her history of spreading disinformation, whether it be on the Hunter Biden laptop or it be these connections between Trump and Russia and the Steele dossier, which were always completely false?
00:10:06.920Oh, no, we didn't look at that at all.
00:10:09.080Not to mention, why are we even having something called a disinformation bureau here in the United States?
00:10:17.560But what's really amazing, and I want to go back to this theory, because I've got this theory of the case on Nina Yankovic, that every time that I watch either Jen Psaki be questioned about her or Secretary Mayorkas, I think I get a little bit closer to confirming what I initially thought about this.
00:10:40.500None of these principles were actually briefed on this thing.
00:10:43.160Remember, they originally said that they wanted the disinformation bureau or whatever they're calling it, the mystery of whatever, that they wanted at the NSC, which would attach it to the White House.
00:10:54.640But even the NSC and the White House were like, we don't have anything to do with this.
00:11:13.900But people like Jen Psaki and people in Team Biden were pushing for this up and down because they said, well, it's about COVID and it's about this.
00:11:22.720So originally it was going to be about COVID and really anything that was going on with the White House.
00:11:28.660And I think the dirty little secret in all of this is that the fact checkers obviously are in communication with the White House and they always have been.
00:11:36.320Right. And so whenever there's a problem, whenever somebody accidentally reports something true, particularly with COVID, they would call up the White House.
00:11:44.020The White House would call up these fact checkers.
00:11:45.640This is what we're pretty sure is going on.
00:11:48.080And then they would say, hey, you've got to fact check this stuff.
00:11:49.940You've got to take it down from Instagram.
00:11:51.140You've got to take it down from Facebook.
00:11:52.500You've got to get away from all of these places.
00:11:54.040So that's how government censorship works here in these United States currently in modern day America.
00:12:00.600But what they're doing, what they're doing now is they've stuck it over at DHS.
00:12:06.060And so they've got to make some, you know, papered over argument.
00:12:08.960Well, it's not going to be about that because it's illegal immigrants.
00:12:16.320And it's a kind of kind of a redheaded stepchild because nobody wants to own this thing.
00:12:23.560Nobody wants to take credit for having to have to do this to set this thing up.
00:12:28.320And when it comes to Yankovic, when they look at her record, nobody is even willing to defend it.
00:12:35.080Yeah. Jen Psaki will make some comments about, oh, well, she had this fellowship with the Clintons in Ukraine.
00:12:40.340So that's it. Wait, wait, wait. It's like every time you learn something new or more new about Nina Yankovic, you want to ask more questions about it.
00:12:47.840Like, what do you mean she had a fellowship with the Clintons?
00:12:51.040And what do you mean that she was it was the Clinton Clinton Fulbright Fellowship for Public Policy, to be fair.
00:12:57.660And she was advising the Ukrainian ministry.
00:13:01.640She's actually from the Ukrainian ministry.
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00:15:19.820Well, Pope Francis is making headlines for a recent comment that he made speaking to an Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera,
00:15:29.740stating that NATO's barking at Russia's door may have led to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
00:15:37.020And he said that he has offered to meet the Russian president in Moscow.
00:15:40.540In an interview with the Italian newspaper, Pope Francis reflected on Russia's aggression toward its neighbor
00:15:45.900and said, well, he might not go so far as to say NATO's presence in nearby countries provoked Moscow,
00:15:53.860but it perhaps facilitated the invasion.
00:15:55.820He also condemned the brutality of the war and compared it to a civil war in Rwanda.
00:16:00.360What's interesting, if you go to the actual Italian paper, here's what they printed.
00:16:05.040Pope Francis' concern is that the war for the moment will not stop.
00:16:09.260He also, I've got a translation of it, machine translation.
00:16:12.260He also thinks about the roots of this behavior and about the reasons that pushed Russia to such a war.
00:16:19.480He said, perhaps the barking of NATO at Russia's door prompted the head of the Kremlin to react badly and unleash the conflict.
00:16:28.820An anger that I don't know if it was provoked, but perhaps eased.
00:16:33.300Yes. He then also said, when they asked him the question of supplying of Western weapons to the Ukrainian resistance,
00:16:39.360he said, I can't answer. I'm too far away to the question of whether it is right to supply the Ukrainians.
00:16:45.100But he did also make a point where he was talking about the Spanish Civil War.
00:16:50.920And he said there was a situation that wars were being tested before the use of weapons.
00:16:56.660And this was the point, right, to test the weapons.
00:16:58.460And he said there was a situation recently, two or three years ago, at the port of Genoa, which is in Italy.
00:17:03.660He's talking to you on Italian paper. Obviously, it lives in Italy, in Rome, in Vatican City.
00:17:07.380He said, workers of the port of Genoa were transporting weapons from a large freighter to a transport that would eventually send them to Yemen.
00:17:17.180Right, in Yemen, the Saudis have been in war for several years now.
00:17:20.200The port workers said they didn't want to transfer the weapons.
00:17:24.600And they said, let's think of the children of Yemen.
00:17:29.160It's a small thing, but a nice gesture. There should be so many like that.
00:17:33.360Now, look, I've been a critic of Pope Francis on a lot of things for a lot of his participation in the cover ups of sex scandals.
00:17:41.840For some of the criminals that were posing, right, the devout priests.
00:17:48.520I've been critical of him for not calling out Biden, for his, President Biden, for his, you know, claiming to be a devout Catholic while not supporting any of the positions of the church whatsoever.
00:17:58.820Right. And I've also been critical of just many of his liberal stances in general.
00:18:03.160Why, you know, why is the Pope getting into these issues of global warming or prompting this stuff?
00:18:07.660The Pope should be standing for morality in the world and conducting the preachings of Jesus Christ.
00:18:14.060Right. Spreading the teaching of Jesus Christ. You don't really hear him talk about that very much.
00:18:17.820But what's interesting to hear is that he's got the entire neoliberal Western establishment up in arms against him because he dared question.
00:18:28.660He dared question whether or not NATO and the expansion, the rapid expansion of NATO across the continent of Europe, right up to and now including Russia's historic border, the buffer, right, with with Western Europe being that state of Ukraine.
00:18:47.560The word Ukraine, of course, meaning at the border.
00:18:51.360Right. That's literally what the word Ukraine means.
00:18:53.820So at the border. Russia has always viewed it as a borderland.
00:18:58.820Traditionally, it has been a borderland with Western Europe, Belarus as well.
00:19:04.340And so the question, of course, is not necessarily one of should the war be happening?
00:19:08.960And he condemns that he says, we don't want this war.
00:19:11.440We are anti-war. And if you remember, Pope John Paul II also condemned the Iraq war and condemned the United States invasion there.
00:19:18.680But what he's saying here is perhaps we should look at both sides and perhaps we should understand what led this war to happening.
00:19:29.240Kind of amazing to hear something like that from a world leader of his stature.
00:19:34.680Could we at least look at both sides of the situation?
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00:24:37.840It's a celebration of the defeat of the French Empire's invasion of Mexico in the 1860s, taking advantage of the U.S. Civil War.
00:24:45.400Napoleon III, Spain, and the U.K. wanted to institute regime change in Mexico to a pro-French, pro-European government.
00:24:54.960After the Civil War ended, the U.S. aided Mexico with weapons and thousands of volunteer soldiers.
00:25:01.840Cinco de Mayo is the date of the Battle of Puebla.
00:25:04.580Mexico won the battle, but France would go on to occupy nearly the entire country, installing Maximilian von Habsburg as the Emperor of Mexico.
00:25:13.560However, due to widespread guerrilla warfare, Napoleon III withdrew by 1867, and Maximilian was later executed.
00:25:22.600Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.